Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [conj] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joseph found he could n't sit still and he rose to pace back and forth at a distance from the others . |
| 2 | Seemed to go back and forth between the reservation and the city for a while looking for the right place to be . |
| 3 | Gobbets seemed to wink in and out of existence . |
| 4 | In the afternoons there was little to see other than the skateboarders who came to clatter back and forth in the bowl-shaped space under the Festival Hall , making a sound that was somewhere between a roller derby and a kendo match ; but as evening came on , bags and boxes would start to appear in the best-lighted spots under the concrete . |
| 5 | The children began to jump in and out of the boat , arranging and re-arranging themselves . |
| 6 | A mile or so on , however , and thoughts of Cara began bouncing in and out of her head . |
| 7 | I recently had an interesting encounter with the honeybee and it only served to point out that regardless of size the degree of intelligence is quite extraordinary . |
| 8 | ‘ I think it would be a good idea if we all had a swim before breakfast , do n't you ? ’ he said , the announcement seized upon with alacrity by the two little girls who , once again , began jumping up and down on the mattress as if it were a trampoline . |
| 9 | His prong began to thrust in and out of her like a greased piston , and she found it slipped up her arse as often as it penetrated her vagina . |
| 10 | The staff started leaping up and down on him . |
| 11 | Various depressed minions started to trickle in and just after seven-thirty , a man in a chef 's hat arrived through the doors that led to the kitchens , carrying an enormous silver tray which he laid in the centre of the table . |
| 12 | She kept twirling round and round on the grass . ’ |
| 13 | The bricks and iron and peeling paint were somehow analogous to the people he saw passing in and out of them , with their dirty faces , stooping postures , and threadbare clothes . |
| 14 | Then I took a year off , and she kept going on and on at me that it 's time to go back to college , so I did in the end . |
| 15 | Other places had half shut up , which meant trecking back and forth across bridges to get cups of luke warm coffee . |
| 16 | Did you see the one who kept running up and down in the weird hat ? |
| 17 | Yeah er you know , we had an understanding that if erm because there were times when we wanted to just have some time together , or to pray together , and erm you know people who did come in and out to the flats , we erm told them that if th we were in and we did n't answer the door , it was actually because we were either doing something that we could n't come . |
| 18 | He was , of course , the man who had once brought in a cup , painted black on the inside and white on the outside , and , after pointing out its close resemblance to the soul of the average sinner , had jumped up and down on it , foaming at the mouth . |
| 19 | A southern Italian , he had taught up until now in a village near Naples and could not speak a word either of Slovene or of Triestino . |
| 20 | he could n't swing much so he had to go down and back in but er |
| 21 | His thumb continued to stroke back and forth over her cheek as he regarded her sombrely . |
| 22 | " I do n't think I 'll ever feel anything ever again with the region I sit on , " grinned Chuck as he continued to bounce up and down on the plank bench . |
| 23 | However , just as Norman had got up and down from another bunker for his last round of 69 , so did Beck , firmly sinking a putt of six feet as the Australian looked on and reflected on what might have been . |
| 24 | And on one day of hard frost , Paul and Molly had slid back and forth across the shining ice , screaming with delight , watched by a bold robin who sat fearlessly nearby on a low bare branch preening the pale grey feathers that edged the bronze of his breast . |
| 25 | Well he said go back and tomorrow at least and |
| 26 | She had gone on and on about it until Lydia 's face had ached from grinning in appreciation of Betty 's praise and frowning in polite dismissal of her wilder flights . |
| 27 | He had gone in and out by the rear door and back stairs and seen no one but Linley . |
| 28 | It would obtain to the person who had gone out and not to his heirs and successors and it would involve his going out and someone else taking on his land . |
| 29 | Sunlight beat down on them , now the tall mahogany and fig trees were thinned around ; the ferns shrivelled in the shafts ; animals which had wandered in and out of Sycorax 's compound now watered in the creek further upstream , and avoided the company of men . |
| 30 | We had to get in and out of life rafts . |